Armageddon,
Of course you know your sister better than anyone on this board. However, my experience is that dubs have the attention span about as long as it takes two gnats to complete the mating process. Anything longer than a page makes their eyes glaze over and makes them go totally braindead.
I think the odds are in favor of your sister reading the first page or so and then glancing over the rest of your work and coming to one or more of the following conclusions:
"This material came from "apostate" sources and is forged."
"Even great Biblical prophets and Kings made mistakes. Take Moses and David and Solomon for examples. Therefore, the GB are just imperfect people like all the rest of us."
"You're just bitter." (The classic dub ad-hominem. Like, how does being bitter or not bitter change the facts?)
"Why are you always trying to tear down, instead of building up?" (A strawman argument: change the subject and attack the new argument one just set up. Like, the WTS NEVER "tore down" the beliefs and practices of any other religion! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
"Jehovah will correct every problem. We just need to wait on him." (In 3.5 million years of human existence walking on two legs people have hoped for the same thing, but to no avail for them, either.)
"Jehovah allows those mistakes to be made to "test" the faith of his people." (Jehovah lets lies get promoted in His name to "test" people? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) Lastly, dubs are generally very lazy, and most are too lazy to actually take the time to verify your sources. In fact, many are so lazy they will make up any excuse possible to justify NOT checking your references.
Of course, I hope I'm wrong and your letter strikes a nerve with your sister. I'm just preparing you to not be too disappointed if she doesn't. FACTS never meant much to dubs, you know.)
Thanks for your attribution to me, by the way.
Farkel
Of course you know your sister better than anyone on this board. However, my experience is that dubs have the attention span about as long as it takes two gnats to complete the mating process. Anything longer than a page makes their eyes glaze over and makes them go totally braindead.
I think the odds are in favor of your sister reading the first page or so and then glancing over the rest of your work and coming to one or more of the following conclusions:
"This material came from "apostate" sources and is forged."
"Even great Biblical prophets and Kings made mistakes. Take Moses and David and Solomon for examples. Therefore, the GB are just imperfect people like all the rest of us."
"You're just bitter." (The classic dub ad-hominem. Like, how does being bitter or not bitter change the facts?)
"Why are you always trying to tear down, instead of building up?" (A strawman argument: change the subject and attack the new argument one just set up. Like, the WTS NEVER "tore down" the beliefs and practices of any other religion! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
"Jehovah will correct every problem. We just need to wait on him." (In 3.5 million years of human existence walking on two legs people have hoped for the same thing, but to no avail for them, either.)
"Jehovah allows those mistakes to be made to "test" the faith of his people." (Jehovah lets lies get promoted in His name to "test" people? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) Lastly, dubs are generally very lazy, and most are too lazy to actually take the time to verify your sources. In fact, many are so lazy they will make up any excuse possible to justify NOT checking your references.
Of course, I hope I'm wrong and your letter strikes a nerve with your sister. I'm just preparing you to not be too disappointed if she doesn't. FACTS never meant much to dubs, you know.)
Thanks for your attribution to me, by the way.
Farkel